LÉRY, Jean de.Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quæ et America dicitur. Qua describitur authoris navigatio, ... Secunda editio.Geneva, heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594. 8vo. With 7 full-page and 1 folding woodcut plate (16 x 22.5 cm), 7 full-page woodcuts on integral leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with fillets. Borba de Moraes, pp. 468-473; JCB I, p. 334; Rodrigues 1399 note; Sabin 40154; cf. Adams L536 (1586 ed.). Rare second separately published Latin edition, with minor revisions, of a very important, successful and beautifully illustrated work on Brazil by the Protestant minister Jean de Léry (1534-1611). De Léry, born Margelle (Bourgogne) in 1534, altered the course of his life by deciding in 1556 to accompany a group of Protestant (Huguenot) ministers and faithful to Brazil under the protection of Admiral Caspard de Coligny (1519-1572). He left for Brazil with 13 others in November 1556, heading for the colony founded the year before by Vice-Admiral Nicolas Durand, Chevalier de Villegagnon on an island in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro. Léry's book attempts to provide French readers with an accurate description of Brazil, its people (including their shocking cannibalism) and its exotic plants and animals.With inscriptions on an endleaf. An owner's stamp on the back of the title-page and margins of two text pages has been partly erased. Very slightly browned, with some small marginal worm holes in the first and last leaves, but still in good condition. The binding also has some worm holes, but is also good, with the tooling very crisp and clear.

Robert CecilThe Copie of a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester . . . With a report of certeine petitions and declaratations made to the Qveenes Maiestie . . . And her Maiesties answeres therunto by her selfe deliuered [etc.]. S.T.C. 6052. Quarto London: Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker [etc.], 1586. Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, some browning and a trace of marginal worming, else a good crisp copy; without the leaf containing the woodcut arms The famous debate as Elizabeth was determining whether Mary Queen of Scots should be executed, cast as a report from Cecil to Leicester, but in fact carefully reviewed and corrected by Elizabeth, prefiguring Cecil and Elizabeth&#39;s close relationship

Clairvaux, Bernard vanOpera Omnia, tam quae vere Germana illius esse nemo inficias eat, quam quae spuria & supposititia quanquam non dissimilis pietas plerisque videri possunt, diligentisime nunc primum recognita, aucta ac emendata, & in ordinem concinniorem disposita. Ut ex praefatione ad lectorem, & operum Catalogo, maxime vero quid in hac editione sit praestitum, licebit cognoscere. Cum Indice duplici, altero locorum sacrae scripturae passim abipso D. Bernardo explicatorum, altero eoque nouo & amplo rerum & verborum. Parisiis, cum Privilegio Regis 1586. Tomus Primus: (16) 1794, Tomus Secundus: (2) 1046, (185) p. Contemporary Vellum, Folio (Bernard of Clairvaux, was a Frankish abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d'Absinthe, about 15 km southeast of Bar-sur-Aube. According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux. There Bernard would preach an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary. In the year 1128, Bernard assisted at the Council of Troyes, at which he traced the outlines of the Rule of the Knights Templar, who soon became the ideal of Christian. Two parts in Vellum, complete edition of his Works.).

COLLADO, LuigiPratica Manuale di Arteglieria; Venice: Pietro Dusinelli ad instantia del proprio Auttore, , 1586. Nellaquale si tratta della inventione di essa, dell&#39;ordine di condurla, & piantarla sotto Ã qualunque fortezza, fabricar mine da far volar in alto le fortezze, spianar le montagne, divertir l&#39;acque offensive Ã i Regni & provincie, tirar co i pezzi in molti & diversi modi, far fuochi artificialii, con altri bellissimi secreti all&#39;essercito dell&#39;arteglieria appartenenti. Folio (340 Ã— 225 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, title inked to the spine, upper cover somewhat wormed, overall slightly stained, spine with a number of splits and slight loss towards the head. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Title page with superb wood-cut border of caryatids and putti enclosing the arms of the Duke of Aragon, 6 full-page and 29 smaller wood-cut illustrations to the text, 2 plates bound in on separate leaves, blank verso, unpaginated but signed as S2 and T2. Some marginal staining throughout, heavier on G1, small piece torn from the corner of M3 no loss of text or image, small paper flaw to *3, the second leaf of the Dedicatory Epistle, costing part of two letters, a few scattered worm-holes, largely marginal and similarly costing only parts of letters, indistinct early armorial ink stamp to the title page and a quantity of marginal notes in a later Italian hand. Remains an attractive, unsophisticated copy. First edition. Foundation text for the practical application of scientific principles to artillery, "the first really detailed, well-illustrated technical manual on both the theory and practice of artillery." (Hall Ballistics in the Seventeenth Century, p. 46). Meticulously covers the manufacture, testing and firing of various types of ordnance, the history and manufacture of gunpowder, the duties of gunners and artillery officers, the use of naval artillery, the employment of various kinds of projectiles, mining and the military and entertaining uses of fireworks. Collado had served as an engineer in Philip II&#39;s army in Italy and perhaps produced this grand treatise in an effort to attract patronage: a less sumptuous edition was published some 20 years later. Uncommon, COPAC records only the BL copy in Britain, OCLC has just 9 copies, no copy at auction for 10 years. D&#39;Ayala, who had not seen a copy, considered it rare, however the Italian Union Catalogue inevitably locates a swathe of copies.

Telesii Consentini, Bernardini (Telesio, Bernardino) (Telesius, Bernardin) (Bernadinus)DE RERUM NATURA IUXTA PROPRIA PRINCIPIA. Libri IX. Ad illustrissimum et eccellentiss Don Ferdinanum Carrafam Nuceria Ducem Apud Horatium Salvianum, 400 pp., Neapoli 1586 - "Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) was an italian philosopher and natural scientist. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation made him the "first of the moderns" who eventually developed the scientific method. What is perhaps most striking about De rerum natura is Telesio's attempt to mechanize as much as possible. Telesio clearly strives to explain everything in terms of matter informed by hot and cold and to keep his arguments as simple as possible. When his discussions turn to human beings he introduces an instinct of self-preservation to account for their motivations. And when he discusses the human mind and its ability to reason in the abstract about immaterial and divine topics, he adds a soul. For without a soul, all thought, by his reasoning, would be limited to material things. This would make God unthinkable and clearly this was not the case, for observation proves that people think about God" (Wikipedia). Engraved illustration on title page. Bound in original vellum. Text in latin. === FILOSOFIA - CLASICOS === Folio [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Martyrologio Romano.Martyrologio Romano reformado co[n]forme a la nueua razo[n] del kale[n]dario, y verdad de la historia ecclesiastica. Traduzido agora nuevamete de lengua latina en la Española: por Dionysio Vazquez [.]. Valladolid, D. F. de Cordova, 1586. - 4to. (12), 214 ff. With numerous woodcut initials and 12 woodcuts in the text. 18th-c. marbled calf with label to gilt spine. All edges red. Rare first Spanish edition. The "Martyrologium romanum" was newly edited by Cardinal Baronius in 1584 after the calendar reforms of Pope Gregory XIII. The 1586 edition published in Rome is rare, as well, as the author had most copies called back after he had been made aware of mistakes owing to his poor command of Greek. He corrected the work and issued it once more in Antwerp in 1589, in Rome in 1598, and in Paris in 1607" (cf. Wetzer/W. I, 2038). Another edition of the uncorrected first version was printed in Venice in 1587 (cf . ibid. I, 181). This present Spanish translation by the Jesuit Dionysio Vazquez can only be a largely unknown version based on the uncorrected original and is illustrated with 12 little woocuts (one for each month). Extremely rare; only an incomplete copy in OCLC (Newberry Library; last f. supplied in ms.). Collation shows departures from Palau ([13], 278, [2] ff.), but complete without an index. Later editions (published until the 18th century) are probably based on the revised text. - Contemp. ms. ownership note "Juan Igancio de Fuentes" on t. p.; signature of the Spanish composer Joan Pacheco Montion ("maestro de catedral" in 1684; cf. ABEPI I 696, 87) on final leaf. Palau 156.585. De Backer/Sommervogel VIII, 488. Not in BM-STC Spanish. Not in Adams. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Tomaso GarzoniL'hospidale De' Pazzi Incurabili Ferrara: Appresso, Giulio Cefare Cagnacini, & Fratelli 1586 - 24mo. Vellum. 4 bands, 5 compartments down spine. 107 pages. Italian. Tight binding and unmarked pages. Minimal wear to cover. Published simultaneously in Venice, Ferrara and Piacenza, the story takes the reader on a tour through a mental hospital, depicting various forms of psychological illness throughout the ages. The work opens with a dedication, followed by two sonnets. Examples of historicalfigures are given for each form of psychosis. An interesting aspect to take note of are the separate descriptions of identical diseases provided for women. The book notes that although the symptoms are similar if not the same, women throughout history have had less hope in receiving treatment, emphasizing their plight in comparison to that of other afflicted individuals. This volume offers a unique perspective on mental illness and how it was viewed by society in the late 16th century. A unique and valuable resource for anyone with an interest in the history of medicine or psychology. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Livy (Titus Livius); Jacopo Nardi (trans)Le Deche di T. Livio Padovano delle Historie Romane Tradotte nella lingua Toscana da M. Jacopo Nardi, Cittadino Fiorentino (Two Volumes - Complete) Bernardo Giunti, Venice 1586 - Two volumes, bound in 20th century full brown leather, spines in five compartments with gilt lettering in two and gilt decoration in the remaining three, gilt decoration and medallions on all boards. 8vo. (cxxxiv), 522; 305 (pages 524-829) pp. An extremely rare edition of the Decades of Livy translated into the vernacular Tuscan by Jacopo Nardi (1473-1563) of Florence and published in Venice in 1586, beautifully rebound in very elegant full leather. The new binding is in perfect, pristine condition. There are some notations in an elegant antique Italian hand on the title pages; some very old staining, some light foxing, and a few very old worm-holes in the original text block (not affecting any text). VERY GOOD. First published in 1540, this revised edition of 1586 includes an index of the Decades, a table of the Kings and Consuls of Rome, an index of Tuscan words used by the translator, and finally a collection of "Judgments" and notable extracts from Livy. An extremely beautiful set. IN ITALIAN (Tuscan). Fine Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall [Attributes: First Edition]

Scappi, AntonioTractatus Iuris non Scripti, Quod in Utroque Foro Observatur. 1586 - A Rare Comparative Treatise on Canon and Customary Law Scappi, Antonio. Tractatus Iuris non Scripti, Quod in Utroque Foro Observatur. Venice: Apud Ioannem Baptistam Somaschum, 1586. [xliv], 142 ff. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (12" x 8"). Somewhat later calf, blind frames to boards, raised bands, lettering piece and gilt ornaments to spine. A few scuffs and stains to boards, some rubbing to joints, minor chipping to spine ends, corners bumped, minor worming to pastedowns, front one has small bookseller ticket. Large woodcut printer device to title page, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and a few decorated initials. Light toning, occasional faint dampstaining. Early oener signatures to front endleaves and foot of title page, interior otherwise clean. * First edition. An unusual work, this is a comparative handbook of canon law and the customary law of Venice. Another edition was published in 1605. The title page identifies the author as a lawyer connected to the Papal Curia. OCLC locates 1 copy in North America (at UC-Berkeley Law School, which has the first edition). Censimento Nazionale delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo CNCE32765. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

MATTIOLI, Pietro AndreaKreutterbuch...jetzt widerumb mit viel schÃ¶nen neuwen Figuren, auch nÃ¼tzlichen Artzneyen, und andern guten stÃ¼cken, auss sonderm fleiss gemehret, und verfertiget durch Joachimum Camerarium Title, printed in red & black, with large woodcut border by Jost Amman, ca. 1000 woodcuts in the text, & printer&#39;s device on colophon leaf, also by Amman. 8 p.l., 460, [38] leaves (the last a blank). Large folio, cont. blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (for more on binding, see below), orig. brass clasps & catches. Frankfurt: [S. Feyerabend, P. Fischer, & H. Dack], 1586. First edition, and a superb copy, of the first edition of Camerarius&#39;s version of Mattioli&#39;s great herbal. The first German edition had appeared in 1563 in Prague, translated by Georg Handsch (1529-78). For our edition, Joachim Camerarius (1534-98), took Handsch&#39;s translation and added his own extensive commentary; these passages are marked by asterisks. This edition contains the celebrated Gesner/Camerarius suite of woodcuts. Gesner had been preparing material for a massive Historia plantarum but died before finishing the task. Camerarius acquired the material, utilized the woodcuts in the present work and supplemented them with his own. They are remarkable in their scientific detail, especially the enlarged depictions of floral structure, seeds, and fruit. This is the first time that such representation was consistently followed, and marks the beginning of what only much later became a convention in scientific botanical illustration, when the taxonomic importance of these details was fully appreciated. They also appeared in Camerarius&#39; recension of Mattioli, De Plantis Epitome utilissima of the same year (which is a different text from the above, and not merely a Latin version of the same). In addition to the botanical cuts, the German edition contains seven woodcuts of distilling apparatus. In the Foreword, Camerarius describes in detail the history of the production of this book, and of the woodblocks in particular. Not all of the Gesner woodblocks were finished when Camerarius set out to edit Mattioli&#39;s text. In supervising the cutting of the already executed designs of the blocks, he took much care in assuring they were botanically correct. In the preface he gives a list of woodcuts already finished, but not botanically correct, and describes how the depicted configurations and shapes of leaves differ from nature. The fine title woodcut has, within an oval at top, a female figure seated and feeding a snake, with the motto "Bonae Valetudini Digatum"; at bottom another oval containing a fine small agricultural scene, with a tree surrounded by a woven fence at center, having the motto "Wan Gott Wil / Spes," the whole surrounded by the motto "Omnia Florebunt Prospiciente Deo." The compartment is inscribed at the bottom left "C S", and at right "I A". Binding: contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, two rolls bearing the monogram "M. N." (attributed by Haebler, Rollen und Plattenstempel, 313, 1 and 2, to Martin Nebert of Nuremberg). With the original brass clasps and catches. Provenance: Slightly later manuscript entry at foot of title: "Weil dieses Buch in meiner Bibliothec doppelt gewesen, habe diese Theil meinem lieben Hn: Schwager Tit: Hn: George Herman von Schweinitz geschencket. Hans Friedrich v. [?]Mutschelnitz." A fine, tall, and crisp copy with many lower edges uncut. A few gatherings with some very slight browning and a small patch of marginal worming on leaves 243-53 not affecting text. The binding is somewhat soiled. .

Melanchthon, Philipp; Emmel, Samuel; Vincentius, Petrus, and othersSelectarum declamationum Philippi Melanthonis. Quas conscripsit, & partim ipse in schola Vitebergensi recitauit, partim alijs recitandas exhibuit. Tomus Quartus Serveatae:: Bonaventura Faber,. 1586.. Hardcover. Very good condition. In the original tooled vellum with intact metal hinged clasps. The selected speeches of Philipp Melanchthon (1497 - 1560) a German theologian, educational reformer, and one of the leaders of the Lutheran Reformation. Melanchthon befriended Martin Luther at the university in Wittenberg, and said of him, "I would rather die than be separated from this man". Melanchthon wrote the first summary of reform theology (&#39;Loci Communes&#39;), and attended the Congress of Augsburg for Martin Luther, who could not be present due to his excommunication. Melanchthon wrote the first great confession (confessio) of the Reformation the "Augsburg confession" (Confessio Augustana).& & Full contemporary vellum with blind tooled decorations on boards and spine, title and date in gilt on red leather at spine. With the original ornately tooled metal bands and hinged clasps intact, and a contemporary handwritten number 35 at the head of the spine. 12mo, 844pp, index, Anno 1555. Small label, Bibliotheca Rob. Scholtzii Loc Nr 1044 at front pastedown. Covers a bit dusty, otherwise remarkably good condition. OCLC: 838467321 cites only the National Library of Poland holding a copy.

Aurelius, Marcus] [Guevara Antonio de]GOLDEN BOOKE OF MARCUS AURELIUS, Emperour and Eloquent Oratour London By Thomas East 1586 - A very early edition in English, likely only the third. Translated by Lord Berners, John Bourchier. Title-page within woodcut border, woodcut tailpieces on the final page of text and after the colophon, which has a woodcut printer's mark on the verso. Small 8vo, in antique full tan calf, the boards with fine blind-tooled panels, the spine richly decorated in blind between raised bands, one compartment with a red morocco label ruled in lettered in gilt, additional gilt lettering at the foot, page edges and end-leaves marbled. A1-nn8, lacking mm2-mm8. A handsome copy, quite fresh and solid, a small defect to the first leaf of the table at front effecting a few words of text, very occasional other trivial soiling or evidence of use, occasional early marginal evidence of long ago damp, very minor, the binding handsome and strong. A SCARCE 16TH CENTURY ENGLISH EDITION OF ANTONIO DE GUEVARA'S DISCOURSE ON THE IDEAL RULE OF KINGS BASED UPON THE EXAMPLES OF MARCUS AURELIUS. Guevara was an important Spanish court preacher and served as historian to the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, Charles V. This work purports to be a life of Marcus Aurelius, but was an original work by him meant to use examples from Aurelius' life to function as a discourse on ideal rule for the new King. He claimed he discovered it in an old manuscript and that his contributions and decisions as an editor were merely of style and not of real substance. It "presented a richly drawn portrait of Marcus Aurelius as an emperor and as a man. The book's extraordinary success was owed in no small part to this humanized characterization. in the 17th-century it was said that in its epoch, no book but the Bible enjoyed such a wide diffusion. (It] created a new dimension to the personality of Marcus Aurelius, popularizing the Emperor as the ideal prince." [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Garzoni, TomasoL&#39;Hospidale de Pazzi incurabili, nuovamente formato Ferrara: Giulio Cesare Cagnacini, 1586. <p>Garzoni, Tomaso (1549-89). L&#146;hospidale de&#146; pazzi incurabili. 8vo. [8], 107, [1]ff. Ferrara: Giulio Cesare Cagnacini & Fratelli, 1586. 149 x 103 mm. Modern calf. Light foxing and dampstaining, top margin trimmed a little close not affecting text, but very good. Early ownership inscription on title, library stamps on verso of last leaf. </p><p>First Octavo Edition (a quarto edition and a duodecimo edition were also published the same year, in Venice and Piacenza respectively). Garzoni, an Italian monk, published a number of historical, philosophical and theological works during his short life, the best known of which is the present work on mental illness. It is remarkable for offering a glimpse of the 16th-century layman&#146;s (i.e., non-physician&#146;s) attitude toward insanity. </p><p>"As the author specifically states, his book is intended to popularize the issue of insanity in order to enhance good mental health for the average person. In so doing, Garzoni in fact presents a reliable picture of the contemporary view of mental illness as held by the general public rather than by the medical profession. </p><p>"In the first thirty chapters he presents a series of abnormal persons, each one characterized by a particular adjective according to the custom of the time (for instance, odd, stubborn, extravagant). From the description of the behavior of these individuals it is possible to relate these adjectives to modern psychopathological conditions: depression, schizophrenia, stupor, mental retardation, anxiety, psychopathic personality, impulsivity, paranoia, sexual disorders, periodic mania, psychomotor agitation, negativism, homicidal tendency, and others" (Mora, pp. 245-246). </p><p>Garzoni&#146;s work went through a number of editions, and was translated into English in 1600 under the title The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles. Mora, &#147;Renaissance conceptions and treatments of madness,&#148; in History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, ed. Wallace and Gach, pp. 227-254.</p>

[COINS].Beeldenaer, ofte figuer-boeck, dienende op de nieuwe ordonnantie vander munte, gearresteert ende uyt-ghegeven by de ... Staten Generael ... vanden een-en-twintichsten julij 1622, met de ampliatie van dien, door de ghemelte heeren vanden 12. augustus 1626. Inde welcke... gerepresenteert werden de figueren vande goude ende silvere munte, cours ende gangh hebbende in krachte der selver ordonnantie, ende boven welcken geene tot andere prijse ontfangen, ofte besteedt sullen werden. The Hague, widow and heirs of Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1626. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and woodcut illustrations of the obverse and reverse of 127 gold, 244 silver and 7 copper coins. Early 19th-century gold-brocade paper covered boards. Cat. Kress 423; Enno van Gelder, Gedrukte Muntplakkaten 411; STCN (3 copies). Original-size illustrations of numerous gold, silver and copper coins officially recognised as legal tender by the Dutch government, with their proper weights in Engelsen and Asen (pennywight and grains) and their official values in guilders, stuivers and penningen.In 1586, five years after declaring its independence from Spain, the Dutch Republic proclaimed its first general coinage act. Cornelis Claesz. in Amsterdam published the first Beeldenaer, ofte Figuer-boeck in that year, and a second quarto and a sixteenmo edition plus four variants, all under his name, are usually listed under that year (Typ. Batava 440-446; Enno van Gelder 306-310). After a gap of 20 years Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, official printer to the Dutch States General, finally published an updated edition (though the province of Holland issued its own in 1604), and he and his heirs were to produce new editions regularly for the following 20 years.With the title-page pasted to the fly-leaf, a tiny wormhole throughout and a small burning hole through three leaves, not affecting the text. Very good copy.

Bonificatius VIII, Papa (Pope Boniface VIII); Pierre MatthieuLiber Sextus Decretalium D. Bonifacii Papae VIII, Suae Una Cum Clementinis et Extravagantibus; Bound with Septimus Decretalium Constitutionum Apostolicarum Post Sextum, Clementinas & Extravagantes usque in Hodiernum Dietm Editarum, Continuatio Francofurdi (Frankfurt), 1586 & 1590:Francofurdi (Frankfurt), 1586 & 1590 Liber Sextus Decretalium (1586) [8], 622 [1] deals with the "Regulae Iuris" originally pubished in 1298. It is found here at the end of book VI and is now published as one of the five Decretals in the Corpus Iuris Canonici.Of course, at the time Pope Boniface VIII claimed final authority of the the church and the state. It was the abuse of papal power that Danate addressed in Part One of the Divine Comedy, the inferno damning him with the circles of Fraud.Bound with this volume is the massive work of Pierre Matthieu, Septimus decrtalium constitutionum apostolicarum post sextum...[16] 655 [81]. Here his extensive publishing of all the decretal rules with decisions made by individuals with the greatest accuracy and detail. He quotes authorities both papal and those in the universities which accordingly lack binding authority though canon law experts repeatedly found his high level of scholarship useful to place the decrees in their historical context. Together these volumes constitute the thread that binds canon law theory from the 13th to the 16th century..

Gale, Thomas; Vigo, John; GalenThe Whole Worke of that Famous Chirugion Maister Iohn Vigo newly corrected, by men skilfull in that arte. Whereunto are annexed certain works, compiled and published by Thomas Gale, Maister in Chirurgerie [with] Certaine Workes in Chirurgerie [and] Certaine Workes of Galens called Methodus Medendi London: Thomas East, 1586. London: Thomas East, 1586. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in full modern calf, three parts in one, each with numerous generally minor paper flaws, old repairs, chips, damp stains, scattered marginalia in an early hand, library stamps, trimmed a little close here and there touching the catchwords - paper repairs touching some letters but not obscuring any sense except where noted below. Despite all that, the bulk of the works are clean and unmarked.& & The Whole Worke of Vigo is lacking the title and preliminaries, and leaves 3, 6, 161, 162, 297-320 and 369-376, first leaf soiled and worn. Persistent minor dampstaining, a number of leaves with old paper repairs in the margins occasionally touching a letter and obscuring a few words on 2 leaves, trimmed a little close in a few spots. The section of interesting words complete at there - not too bad for such a notoriously incomplete work - one which was often so damaged that it was excised altogether from the collection. 455 leaves (minus the above). First published in 1514 and first translated into English in 1543, it was the first major work to discuss the treatment of gunshot wounds, a new and pernicious problem in Renaissance medicine.& & Certaine Workes in Chirurgerie, the second edition of the first book of surgery written in English, lacking the final letter in the preliminary material, the rest of the preliminaries bound before title 1 but present, lacking the title (bound in facsimile) and 1/2 of the table of luxations (bound in facsimile) but otherwise complete. The Antidotarie bound all out of order at the end, but complete. Includes the Enchiridon of Chirurgerie, An Excellent Treatise of Wounds made with Gunshot, and the Antidotarie. (6), 112, 4 leaves of tables.& & Certaine Workes of Galens, stamps on title, significant marginal damage and repairs to final 10 leaves, 4 quite significant with loss of text at edges, final colophon plate with printers mark partially obscured. (vi), 138 leaves.& & The second edition of each of these works, the first two published separately in 1563, the third in 1567. The 1586 edition was issued both with the works printed separately and, as here, together. Three foundational works of English medicine.& & Graesse G9 (for Galen), Graesse G6 (for Certaine Workes of Chirurgerie). Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Medicine & Health; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044674.

Heresbach, ConradFoure Bookes of Husbandrie.Containing the Whole Art and Trade of Husbandrie, Gardening, Graffing, and Planting, with the Antiquitie and Commendation Thereof, translated by Barnabe Googe John Wight, London 1586 - Small 4to, [12], 193, [1] leaves. Complete. Early 20th centruy full calf with gilt decorated boarders. Some light markings, with light contemporary annotations to the first two leaves, but a remarkably fresh copy of a scarce black letter. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]